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Kazakh leader sacks his defence minister
Saudi Press Agency Published in Saudi Press Agency on 17 - 06 - 2009


Kazakh President Nursultan
Nazarbayev today fired the Central Asian nation's Defence
Minister Danial Akhmetov, Reuters quoted the presidential
press service as saying.
Nazarbayev's decree gave no reason for the sacking of
Akhmetov, a long-term devoted loyalist of the veteran leader
whose previous posts included that of prime minister.
First Deputy Defence Minister Mukhtar Altynbayev became
acting defence minister.
In April, Kazakhstan's Defence Ministry was rocked by a
scandal when the nation's security service accused it of buying
defective military hardware from Israel.
A Kazakh deputy defence minister was sacked after the
security agency's investigators established the government had
incurred losses of $82 million as a result of the deal.

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